Easily control multiple PCs from one machine

Introduction

Working in a school, I often want to update one little setting in a lab but don't want to reimage the entire lab to do so. So I wrote this program to basically broadcast the mouse and keyboard inputs from one computer to any desired computer.

Running the Minion

You're now ready to run the program. I basically remote execute the Minion on all my desired machines using a program called Altiris. You can do this however you want. But you don't have to install... you can run directly from the network. The first time you run it, you may encounter Windows Firewall complaints (because it uses UDP port 2222).

To change the port, you'll have to run the .exe with a switch. For example: "Mouse Broadcaster - Minion.exe -3333"
will set the listening port to UDP port 3333.
To verify that it's running, you'll see a 'moving' mouse cursor icon in the notification area.

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Running the Master

On whatever machine you want to control the others from, run the Master. Again, I just run directly from the network.

The IP you'll see is the broadcast address for your network, which is automatically calculated for you. The default port is 2222 and can be changed before you hit start. Of course, the Minion has to be set to listen on the corresponding port.

Press Start and the application will minimize. All mouse clicks and key presses will be replicated to the Minion machines.

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Closing

Minion -
You can click on the Minion icon in the notification area and choose exit.